Teachers
Announcing the Reaching for Success Grants for 2012-2013
The Reaching for Success Grant program is to encourage creative educational programs that will help a school successfully meet its Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) goals. To accomplish this, the Lake Washington Schools Foundation provides financial resources for specific approaches to enhance or expand the curriculum. These approaches are to be consistent with the District’s priorities and grade level targets, as well as in line with the Lake Washington Schools Foundation mission. Grant applications may propose projects that benefit an individual classroom, a specific grade-level, or an entire school.
Here are some details and important dates regarding the Reaching for Success grants:
| • School principals must approve, rank, and submit all applications from their schools; anyone may help prepare the application. |
• A grant Q and A session will be on January 11, 2012 at the Resource Center, Curriculum Library from noon to 5pm. This is a drop in session and no RSVP is required. |
| • Each grant has a maximum budget amount of $3,000. |
| • Four copies of the application are due in the LWSF office by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2012. Faxed or e-mailed applications will not be accepted. |
| • Applicants will be emailed notification of award by June 1, 2012. |
| • All grant reimbursement requests must be turned in by June 1, 2013, and evaluation forms by June 15, 2013. |
Interested in applying? Use the forms and information documents listed in the box on the right to develop your grant.
Questions: info@lwsf.org
Lake Washington Schools Foundation Awards $83,000 in Grants to
Lake Washington District Schools in Kirkland, Redmond, and Sammamish
REDMOND, WA, May 26, 2010. The Lake Washington Schools Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of 32 Reaching for Success grants totaling over $83,000. All District schools were eligible to submit an unlimited number of grant applications on behalf of individual classrooms, grade levels, or entire schools, emphasizing creative educational programs to assist those schools in successfully meeting their Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) goals. The State mandates that schools have a CIP plan to address each school’s individual educational goals, however, no state funds are allocated for implementing these goals. The Reaching for Success grants include twelve literacy grants, ten math grants, five before- and after-school tutoring grants, two science grants, and one grant each for comparative government, robotics, and parent education.
Seventeen elementary schools will receive grants. Six schools will receive funding for Explorations in Math, a proven program used to develop a math culture through family math nights, after-school math clubs, and enhancements to the current school math curriculum; schools include Franklin, Carson, Twain, Kirk, Rose Hill and Lakeview Elementary. A widely used on-line math program, IXL Mathematics, will be broadly implemented at Rockwell and Twain Elementary Schools. After-school math tutoring will be funded at Sandberg and math curriculum resources will be purchased for Franklin Elementary. Literacy grants will be awarded to Muir, Thoreau, Mann, Einstein, Rose Hill, Smith, Blackwell, Lakeview and Frost Elementary Schools. These literacy grants include the purchase of books and lab resources, as well as the implementation of reading programs to improve literacy and comprehension, and to instill a love of reading. The Green Team at Mann Elementary will continue its science field studies and Einstein Elementary will implement a Parent Academy to more fully engage parents in the education of their children.
Four junior high schools will receive Reaching for Success grants. Redmond Junior High School will implement a school-wide reading program. Rose Hill and Finn Hill Junior Highs will implement and expand after-school tutoring programs, and Evergreen Junior High School will implement an online literacy program.
These Reaching for Success grants will enhance math and literacy learning, extend the learning day through before- and after-school programs, develop tutoring, mentoring, and homework programs, and allow teachers to tailor their instruction to the specific needs of students. The Reaching for Success grants were made possible by the generosity of donors.
A complete list of grants awarded can be found here!